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Your amazing! :-D I can't thank you enough for spending all that time doing that!!! If I could help paint the walls I would!!! Have you been doing this long as I just can't seem to find the information!? :-D

Hi Tracy.

I had fun finding it. The info is out there. I've only got my Platinum sub to GR and everywhere else I find stuff is on free websites. It's a bit like a jigsaw with getting hints of info and playing about with it if it's not clear that you've found anything useful. I don't think I've explained it well. I learned how to do my family tree on the internet by reading threads and paying attention to people like Rambling Rose, MC, Gins and a pile of others and how they seemed to find stuff.

And perhaps it's in my nature to squirrel. In jobs and with friends , I've often been the one who gets asked to chase some info or find more details after someone vaguely remembers something mentioned in a mag or newspaper or on tv or radio at some point in the last twenty years or so. Sometimes I'm asked for something that's just really obscure and it needs 'outside the box' thinking. I used to have to do it all by telephone. It's a lot easier to do with the internet.

Use Google. It's a wonderful tool. I input Gresley and that was how I found the lists. It's always worth inputting a name then London Gazette. I found some really interesting bits of info on some of my names.

I did try to find Leas Row using Google and Google Earth but presumably it no longer exists or has been renamed. Might be that you have to contact the library in Swad or CG.

Found this old thread. Might be useful.
http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/genealogy_chat/thread/1068390

And you should read this. It's about children down the mines and an accident in CG.
http://southderbyshiregraveyards.blogspot.co.uk/2009/08/dreadful-calamity-at-church-gresley.html

Let me know what you have about Bernard and May. It would be interesting to try to find out where and when he died.

J

And another site you might find really intersting.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~brett/gresley/gresley.htm#Trade